{"id":156201,"date":"2023-01-25T01:22:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-may-have-come-up-with-a-way-to-study-the-smallest-form-of-matter"},"modified":"2023-01-25T01:22:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:22:45","slug":"scientists-may-have-come-up-with-a-way-to-study-the-smallest-form-of-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-may-have-come-up-with-a-way-to-study-the-smallest-form-of-matter","title":{"rendered":"Scientists may have come up with a way to study the smallest form of matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-may-have-come-up-with-a-way-to-study-the-smallest-form-of-matter.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quarks are the smallest form of matter that we know of. So small, in fact, that studying it in any meaningful way has proven nearly impossible over the past several decades. That\u2019s because quarks and their counterpart gluons are the small pieces of the puzzle that make up the nucleons in an atom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarks are the smallest form of matter that we know of. So small, in fact, that studying it in any meaningful way has proven nearly impossible over the past several decades. That\u2019s because quarks and their counterpart gluons are the small pieces of the puzzle that make up the nucleons in an atom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}